NGC 5139 Omega Centauri Widefield, Peitao Yan

NGC 5139 Omega Centauri Widefield

NGC 5139 Omega Centauri Widefield, Peitao Yan

NGC 5139 Omega Centauri Widefield

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NGC 5139 Omega Centauri

The largest globular cluster in the Milly Way, thought to be 12 billion years old and around 15 thousand light-years away from earth, is home to nearly 10 million stars tightly bounded by their gravity. This strange globular cluster over 10 times the mass of other large globular clusters, has at least two populations of stars with different age unlike typical globular clusters only resides stars of the same age, is suggested to be the heart of a dwarf galaxy that was torn apart by our Milky Way.

69 x 300s, 5.75 hours of total integration under a bortle 2 sky.

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NGC 5139 Omega Centauri Widefield, Peitao Yan